4252 27. CIRSIUM ERIOPHOllUM. [CL. XIX. 



so deeply semi-pinnate, run down the stem. The stem itself 

 is not so tall, and the flowers are not so large as in our spe- 

 cies. Cnlcus luniflorus M. B. is still more nearly related to 

 it, and is distinguished by having the scales of its calyx 

 broader ; — these are of a reddish colour. As this corresponds 

 with the figure in the Engl. Bot.y it becomes a question, 

 Avhether the Tauric and British plants be not the same 

 variety of C. eriophorum. The other species have a less 

 perfect resemblance Cirsiiim, long ago very correctly dis- 

 tmguished by Tournefort, has been named Cnicua by some 

 later writers, who have not recollected, that Seb. Vaillant a 

 century ago, had given the name to the well marked Centau- 

 rca henedicta as a peculiar genus. We appropriate the name 

 Cirsium, therefore, to those thistles the pappi of which ai*e 

 pinnate and the scales of the calyx thorny. If the scales of 

 the calyx are unarmed, it is tlie genus Saussurea De Cand= 

 If the pappus is simply hairy, it is the genus Carduus. 



Synonyritej and Figures. 



Carduus eri(x:ephalus, Dodon. 723. Clus. Pann. ^(iii. Hist 



J^. 154. Gerard, Emac. 1152. 

 Carduus tomentosus, Lobel. Hist. 482. ic. 2. 9. C. capite 



tomcntoso. J. Bank. Hist. 3. 57. Parkins, 978. 

 Cirsium foliis pinnatis, Hall. Helv. n. 168. 

 Carduus criophorus, Linn. Hort. Upsal 249. Mill. Ic. 293. 



Willd. Sp. PI. 3. 1669. Jacq. Fl. Austr. 171. ? Eng. 



Bot, 386. 

 Cu-sium eriophorum^ Scop. Cam. n. 1008. 



Geographical Distribution . 

 In England, v/here diis thistle is not rare, its farthest nor- 

 thern limit is Cumberland*, (between 54° and 55" N. Lat.) 

 In Germany, again, it extends only a little beyond 51° ; but 

 southward from this, it is very connnon in all hilly regions, 

 especially in the Palatinate, Austria, Hungary, Transylvania, 

 If Gillibert's account (Jundzill, Fl. Lithuan. 244.) be correct, 

 it grows again more eastward, as far as 55°, for it is found be- 



* It grows albu in Scotland, bat spiiringly ; as near the foot of Largo Law 

 in Fifeshire. 



